December 25, 2017

All the Unpopular music

Well, there’s another year done then, and in the tradition of the Unpopular festive celebration, here are links to various musical collections put together over the year(s). At the time of writing it is entirely unclear as to whether the monthly Unpopular mixes will continue in 2018 for it increasingly feels rather like a straightjacket (and one that a dwindling number of people find attraction in, it must be said). I rather think it might all fade away in the year ahead, or at least become something more organic and less driven by the rigid structures of the calendar. Perhaps also the focus may shift more to retrospection as I glance over at shelved records and CDs and think it may be advisable to re-acquaint myself with some of these treasures rather than be constantly looking for New. Perhaps the Unpopular computer expiration of The Thursday Before Christmas (so that this is composed/edited mostly from iPad) will encourage me to Do More Things. Perhaps too I will explore the new in the old as I perhaps escape down 1930s rabbit holes. Idly I wonder are there any records from the 1930s? What sorts of records would the those Bright Young Things of the 1920s have listened to in the 1930s? Or were they all dead by then? Metaphorically or actually…

I digress. And anyway I rather expect everyone (well, all three of you) has immediately skimmed over my words and leapt directly to the download links below. All of which will, in the tradition of these things, disappear like the ghost of Christmases past before 2018 has rung in its first tentative steps.